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Medium USN-5795-2 8 CVEs

net-snmp vulnerabilities

Published Jan 16, 2023 · Updated Jun 29, 2026

Summary

USN-5795-1 and 5543-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in Net-SNMP. This update provides
the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM.

Original advisory details:

It was discovered that Net-SNMP incorrectly handled certain requests. A
remote attacker could possibly use these issues to cause Net-SNMP to crash,
resulting in a denial of service.

Yu Zhang and Nanyu Zhong discovered that Net-SNMP incorrectly handled
memory operations when processing certain requests. A remote attacker could
use this issue to cause Net-SNMP to crash, resulting in a denial of
service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Fixed packages 2

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · Pro 14.04 LTS Pro:14.04:LTS net-snmp 5.7.2~dfsg-8.1ubuntu3.3+esm3
Ubuntu · Pro 16.04 LTS Pro:16.04:LTS net-snmp 5.7.3+dfsg-1ubuntu4.6+esm1

Vulnerabilities 8

  • Medium 6.5

    net-snmp: A buffer overflow in the handling of the INDEX of NET-SNMP-VACM-MIB can cause an out-of-bounds memory access.

    net-snmp provides various tools relating to the Simple Network Management Protocol. Prior to version 5.9.2, a buffer overflow in the handling of the `INDEX` of `NET-SNMP-VACM-MIB` can cause an out-of-bounds memory access. A user with read-only credentials can…

  • Medium 6.5

    net-snmp vulnerable to Improper Input Validation when SETing malformed OIDs in master agent and subagent simultaneously

    net-snmp provides various tools relating to the Simple Network Management Protocol. Prior to version 5.9.2, a user with read-write credentials can exploit an Improper Input Validation vulnerability when SETing malformed OIDs in master agent and subagent simul…

  • Medium 6.5

    net-snmp: A malformed OID in a SET request to SNMP-VIEW-BASED-ACM-MIB::vacmAccessTable can cause an out-of-bounds memory access

    net-snmp provides various tools relating to the Simple Network Management Protocol. Prior to version 5.9.2, a malformed OID in a SET request to `SNMP-VIEW-BASED-ACM-MIB::vacmAccessTable` can cause an out-of-bounds memory access. A user with read-write credent…

  • Medium 6.5

    net-snmp: A malformed OID in a SET request to NET-SNMP-AGENT-MIB::nsLogTable can cause a NULL pointer dereference

    net-snmp provides various tools relating to the Simple Network Management Protocol. Prior to version 5.9.2, a user with read-write credentials can use a malformed OID in a `SET` request to `NET-SNMP-AGENT-MIB::nsLogTable` to cause a NULL pointer dereference. …

  • Medium 6.5

    net-snmp: A malformed OID in a SET request to NET-SNMP-AGENT-MIB::nsLogTable can cause a NULL pointer dereference

    net-snmp provides various tools relating to the Simple Network Management Protocol. Prior to version 5.9.2, a user with read-only credentials can use a malformed OID in a `GET-NEXT` to the `nsVacmAccessTable` to cause a NULL pointer dereference. Version 5.9.2…

  • Medium 6.5

    net-snmp: A malformed OID in a SET to the nsVacmAccessTable can cause a NULL pointer dereference.

    net-snmp provides various tools relating to the Simple Network Management Protocol. Prior to version 5.9.2, a user with read-write credentials can use a malformed OID in a SET to the nsVacmAccessTable to cause a NULL pointer dereference. Version 5.9.2 contain…

  • Medium 6.5
    CVE-2022-44792 EPSS 52%

    handle_ipDefaultTTL in agent/mibgroup/ip-mib/ip_scalars.c in Net-SNMP 5.8 through 5.9.3 has a NULL Pointer Exception bu…

  • Medium 6.5
    CVE-2022-44793 EPSS 53%

    handle_ipv6IpForwarding in agent/mibgroup/ip-mib/ip_scalars.c in Net-SNMP 5.4.3 through 5.9.3 has a NULL Pointer Except…

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-24805
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-24806
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-24807
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-24808
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-24809
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-24810
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-44792
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-44793